Type-bar machine.



No. 657,042. Patented Aug. 28, 1900. R. H. ST. JOHN.

TYPE BAR MACHINE.

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NiTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSWELL II. ST. JOHN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO JOSEPH J. LITTLE, EDWARD D. APPLETON, AND HOMER EATON, TRUSTEES, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y.

TYPE-BAR MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,042, dated August 28, 1900. Application filed August 14, 1899. Serial No. 727,150. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known thatl, ROSWELL lI. ST. JOHN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type-Bar Machines; and I do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to type-bar machines; and the invention consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a front elevation of the complete machine in readiness for 'operation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the machine looking in from the left toward the right in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the machine of which the front is seen in Fig. 1. Fig. 4t is a plan view of the base and the operating parts therein and beneath and with the top part of the machine removed and corresponding substantially to a view looking down from line 4 t, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a cross-section of the machine with some of the parts broken away and taken on line 6 6, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation on line 5 5, Fig.8. Fig. 7is a crosssection of the machine corresponding to line 7 '7, Fig. 4:. Fig. 8 is a plan view on a line corresponding to S S, Fig. 6. Fig. 9 isa sectional elevation on line 5 5, Fig. 8, and corresponding to Fig. 6, but enlarged and showing matrices as they are pushed into the elevator ready to be distributed. Fig. 10 is a sectional elevation of a part of the machine taken on line 10 10, Fig. 8, and looking toward the front. Fig. 11 is a sectional elevation on line 11 11, Fig. 8, designed to show a part of the mechanism for carrying the matrices back toward the distributing mechanism. Fig. 12 is a cross-section on line 12 12, Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is a view of the mechanism shown in Fig. 11 and corresponding to said figure in the main, but showing also the carrier mechanism for distributing the line of matrices in a returned position. Fig. 14L is a cross-section on line 14: let, Fig. 13, resembling Fig. 12 in certain details, as will hereinafter appear. Fig. 15 is a sectional elevation of the machine on line 15 15, Fig. 5, looking toward the rear and shows the elevator ascending. Fig. 16 is a front elevation of the mechanism at the top of the screw for transferring the line of matrices to the distributing box or magazine. Fig. 17 is a cross-section of the mechanism in Fig. 16 on line 17 17. Fig. 18 is a side elevation of the upper part of the machine shown in Fig. 16. Fig. 19 is an enlarged view of the transfer-box and distributing-box with associated mechanism shown in Fig. 18. Fig. 20 is a cross-section of the bottom of the transfer-box on line 20 20, Fig. 19. Fig. 21 is a sectional elevation of a part of the mechanism as shown in Fig. 16 and taken on line 21 21 thereof and enlarged. Fig.

22 is a cross-sectionon line 22 22, Fig. 21, showing the releasing mechanism for the line of matrices. Fig. 23 is a perspective elevation of a matrix as used in this machine. Fig. 2t is a perspective elevation of a spacer. Fig. 25 is a perspective elevation of the spacer bank or magazine at the rear and bottom of the assembling-plate and the key mechanism to operate the same. Fig. 26 is a perspective elevation of the spacer-magazine'releasing mechanism looking more particularly from the front. Fig. 27 is a sectional elevation of the assembling-plate and one of the magazines and the mechanism for releasing the matrices in the magazine to drop into the said plate, the plate and mechanism being broken at the center to accommodate it to the drawings.

In cotemporaneous applications I have one application, Serial No. 718,085, which has to do more especially with the mechanism in the base of the machine for the distribution of power here and there for the various operations and functions of the machine. Another application, Serial No. 693,230, covers more particularly what is known as the distribut-ing mechanism, taking the matrix from its companions in a line and sending it to its proper magazine, and a third application,

Serial No. 727,151, covers particularly the means for supplying the blanks which form the type -bar to the impression-chamber. This application therefore relates to the remaining part of the machine not especially disclosed or covered in the foregoing applications and in the main having reference to the assembling of the matrices in the composition-box and the carrying away of the same to the distributing mechanism proper. To this end, however, it has been deemed necessary to bring into view all or chiefly all of the operating parts of the machine, even though certain of said parts are not claimed herein, but belong to the subject-matter of the other named applications, and this has been necessary because the invention is so interwoven in its structure and functions that more distinct lines of separation have not been practicable.

Having reference now again to the drawings, A represents the base or body of the machine, which is preferably produced in a single casting of such weight and strength .altogether as to make a firm substantial structure throughout. I

B and B represent two columns secured at their base upon the frame A and having an elbow 6 extending at right'angles to the front, as seen in Fig. 2, and a projection b stand-r ing up directly from the angle of said elbow. to support parts higher up, while a lon-g'arm b and likewise integral with B, runs to the 1 highest point of the mechanism, as also seen inFig. 2, to support the upper end of the elevator screw or shaft 0 and other parts, as will hereinafter appear.

D is a keyboard, which is designed to be used as keyboards ordinarily are for the assembling of the matrices, and the connections 1 of which to the respective banks in which the 1 matrices are held will be hereinafter. tracedl out and explained.

we will assume is shown in open and full elevation in Fig. 1, and it would appear as thus shown even if the usual glass cover or door were swungdownover. it, whereby the front of the plate is covered, and the matrices are confined to their channels of travel the same as they would be if an ordinary plate cover were used. Glass is employed because it is deemed better and enables the operator to witness the assembling of the matrices and to take note of any possible though not at all probable obstruction that might occur in the various channels. There is one channel for each magazine of matrices. These channels are separated laterally by walls 2,the most of which are more or less curved, as shown, but all are designed to be of such arrangement relatively to the point to which the-matrix has to travel to enter the composing-chamber that they will all reach the point-of de-S'.

tination in about the same time and all with such promptitude that they are no 'soonerre-i leased than they may be said to have taken: At any rate and necesposing-chamber as quickly as those directly at the top and center.

Referringnow to Fig. 27, we see in sectional elevation one of the many magazines G for the matrices with a number of matrices 4t therein, and a front elevation of a series of magazines is shown in Fig. 16. Just as many of these magazines as may be needed can be added, and some ninety are employed in the present machine, though not so many shown.

The matrices have T-shaped heads and there are flanges or ribs 9 on which the heads rest at each side, and as all these magazines and the operating mechanism for the matrices therein are alike a description of one will suffice for all. Thus in Fig. 27 we see both the detaining and the releasing mechanism. Here are a series of matrices suspended alike from the inclined ribs or rests g and ready 1 to'slide off the instant theyareliberated. Ac-

cording to my construction, however, only one can get away at a time and this one the lowest in the magazine. To this end there is on both sides a very slight but sufficient detention plate or projection g, engaging the head of the lower matrix to keep them all back at the top, while at the bottom there is a somewhat corresponding stop and the two taken together place the matrices in an inclined position to a vertical plane. The front upper corners of the stop g against which the matrices rest in magazine are cut away to facilitate the drop into the assembling channels or ways, having" the walls 2 i to allow the heads of the matrices to slide E is the so called assembling-plate, which freely thereunder, but not to be lifted until they each in succession pass the outer edge thereof, where there is room for only one matrix between said part and the detaininglugs gf. Now as any one of the key'levers b is depressed the releasing-dog b above lifts only the lower matrix sufficiently to pass bot-h stops g and g, and instantly its lower end strikes the inclined back' of stop g and glances out into its channel and thence to the composing-chamber below. A line of mechanism connects key-lever b and dog 17, which may be of one form or another, as may seem desirable, but should be such as to atford easy and prompt actuation of the dog. As here shown, it comprises the series of parts consisting of the pivoted lever b, the link 19 working in two fixed bearings, bar I), connecting lever U and said link, the rocking arm b the link b ,and the matrix-lifting rod if, working in a fixed guide 19 All said parts connected together, as shown in Fig. 27. An adjustable spring b assists in the prompt return of all these parts to their normal position, so that as one'matrix is liberated from a magazine the others will simply move down the width of one, but rest until another is called out.

In'thecom'posing of a line there necessarily 

